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FIREFOX(1) Linux User's Manual FIREFOX(1)

NAME

firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser

SYNOPSIS

firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]

DESCRIPTION

Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

USAGE

If there is an Firefox browser already running, firefox will arrange for it to create a new browser window; otherwise it will start a new instance.

OPTIONS

A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.

X11 options

X display to use
Make X calls synchronous
Don't use X shared memory extension
Make all warnings fatal

Mozilla options

Show summary of options.
Print Firefox version.
Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see below.
Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
Don't connect to a running Firefox instance. This option can be necessary in conjunction to several of the options above, that won't have any effect when an Firefox instance is running unless -no-remote is used at the same time.
Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is guessed from environment and available locales for Firefox.
Starts Firefox in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and showing a bit more debugging messages.
Start with Javascript Console
Open URL in a new window in an already running Firefox process.
Open URL in a new tab in an already running Firefox process.
Load the specified chrome.

ENVIRONMENT

MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables loading browser plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url)

FILES

/usr/bin/firefox - symbolic link to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - Firefox executable.

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin - Legacy executable.

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.

AUTHORS

http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
November 4, 2004 firefox